OVERVIEW OF RESEARCH

Founder and director of the On Ice Performance Laboratory at Brock University

Studies at the 2002 Winter Olympic Games and 2005 Summer Olympic Games

Studies to assist in the engineering of sports equipment

Research on the effects of blade sharpening on performance for the NHL

Research with Sport Canada to investigate effective infrastructure to best support our athletes

TREADMILL RESEARCH

Since the early 1990's only a handful of researchers have scientifically investigated treadmill skating. The early studies conducted using skating treadmills focused primarily on physiological assessments of mature athletes (Nobes et al., 2003; Dreger and Quinney, 1999; Hinrich, 1994). Further studies conducted (Turcotte et al., 2004; Nobes et al., 2003; Dreger and Quinney, 1999) include physiological or biomechanical comparisons of treadmill to on ice skating. None of the above-mentioned studies addressed the question of training and the effectiveness of the treadmill as a training tool for hockey players.

Over the past five years, Dr. Lockwood has worked closely with treadmill companies to develop and validate training programs for all ages, abilities, and levels of play. Controlled, lab based studies have supported the use of the treadmill as a testing and training modality for hockey players.

The effect of an eight week skating treadmill training program on both dry land predictors and on ice measures of skating performance in minor league ice hockey players (n=109) confirmed complete translation of skills to the ice.